iPhone has become an integral part of my workflow and project preparation. Used with iPhoto, it can really help organize visual ideas, keep journals, communicate with clients and stay in touch.
The main idea is loading your images to iPhoto and let it manage the masters (i only do this with personal photos, iPhone pics and pix of me or friends i get from people). After loading the images into iPhoto, organize them with smart albums and keep separate albums for different thing: inspiration, scouting, journal, scrap-booking, twittering, etc.
I keep a scrapbook of images i pull off the internet and portfolios that i really like and as reference and inspiration. Looking at photographs is as much a part of my job as taking them. It keeps me updated on what the trends and techniques are, it helps push ideas and it allows me to feed my addiction to photographs!
I keep my portfolio on my iPhone as well, incase i need to show someone. Even though my website is iPhone and blackberry friendly, but i'd rather have quick access regardless of connection speed.
When I'm out and about or location scouting i keep a visual diary of light, locations, angles , times of day, etc. My brain just wont hold fleeting data, so journaling is actually supplementing for memory lapses. NYC is pretty photogenic and no matter how long you live here and how many times you pass the same streets, there's always something new and interesting that went unnoticed before. I keep a journal of these things and when the time comes and I'm struggling for a location idea or something, the scouting album comes to the rescue.
You can also post you images from your iPhone to Twitter's TwitPic from where ever you are. A little bit of googling around and you can get the pic to post to Twitter and update you facebook status automatically in one fell swoop. For all you boys and girls who can't wait to show off your drunk pictures, twitpic is your man.
I post my iPhone pics on TwitPic: twitpic.com/photos/RobertHooman
The best way to organize your photos is by first creating Smart Albums and editing them to collect images that match a desired condition: "all images whose description is.... ". Whenever you upload your images to iPhoto, choose 'batch change' under the 'Photo' menu or control click on the selections, and add that condition (scouting, scrapbook, portfolio, journal, etc) to the description of the photos. Voila! sync your iPhone and you'll always have your albums in your phone (you need to make sure you've selected that album to to sync).
A plethora of iPhone apps are available to enhance iPhone's original photo app or help with some aspect of photography (pro and amateur). There are apps for panoramas, night photography, HDR, multi-shot, Depth of Field calculators, Tilt-shift effect, grey cards... (26 pages of this stuff). I use Camera Bag which works great and adds a nice punch to the bland iPhone camera. The photo above was shot with Camera Bag Helga effect. I also have a sunrise/sunset and angle calculator called Focalware which i love. The shot below was shot with TiltShift.
For iPhone photography tips, checkout Chase Jarvis' blog: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/12/5-tips-for-making-great-iphone-photos.html
